The Clifton clarion., 1887-08-10
SoIomonvilIc Siftings.

III quduIlIy duu quoh'y, duo tue proceeds derived from the ready sale of this healthy and delicious fruit at home will no doubt en- courage our farmers to enlarge their orchards.
 County Treasurer Pomeroy filed on twenty acres of land south of the Mexican addition to Solomon vile, and intends erecting thereon a substantial residence.
 w. s. Barnum was the only vis- itor from Clifton last week. He reports that there is but little doubt If sale being effected of the gold properties above Clifton, Tn which event look out for boom.
 There was new arrival in town last week not booked on either stage line. Mrs. Lambert Frye, nee Miss Lillie Neese, gave birth, on Wednesday, to the prettiest girl baby I ever saw. Grandpa and Grandma Neese do little else but fondle and smile over her, and daddy Bert says he is bigger man than Cleveland. I an happy to state that mother and child are doing well.
 The Hon. P. J. Bolan took his departure Thursday for Prescott to attend a meeting of the Terri torial Board of Equalization. MT. Bolan is a live business man, just and impartial, and will do his ut most to make everything satisfac tory between the taxpayers and the Territory.
 Deputy Sheriff Smith arrested, on warrant sworn out before Jose Gonzales, justice of the peace of this precinct, J. V. Brighton, a deputy sheriff of Apache county, charged with the murder of Ike Clanton. Mir Brighton is now in jail here and will be examined Tuesday. It is thought that he will be released on hls own recog- nizance to appear before the grand jury, if required.
 The County Recorder is in re- ceipt of the new laws for distribu- ton to the different justices, which will be done as soon as possible.
 Mir. Jerome H. Vaughn, formerly of Clifton but at present residing here, is busily engaged in writing up the resources of Graham county. From portions of the work which l was permitted to read I should judge it will be well done, and if printed and judiciously distributed will be conducive of much benefit to the county.
 Mir. G. v. Parks, of Carlisle, ar rested at Thomas and sent up here for safe keeping a Mexican named Jose Maria Hereda, for complicity in the murder of Deputy Sheriff Hall of Grant County, N. NJ. It is thought, however, that Mir. Parks has made mistake, as Hereda is well known in this section, having been resident here for over two years.
 The time-lock safe for the treas urer's office reached here yester- day. Architect Mccarthy has the contract for placing it in position. It is a fine piece of mechanism, works perfectly, and will relieve our county treasurer of many sleepless hours.
 Mir. Norman Buck. attorney at law, Lordsburg, N. M., paid this burg a business visit last week. MT. Buck, who is q young lawyer of much ability, is favorably inn pressed with the resources of this valley and may at no distant day decide to cast his lot with us.
 I noticed in the Citizen, which, Ey the way, is the only newspaper published in Tucson, a criticism on the publication of that famous petition of the Board of Supervis- ors of Pima county, in regard to the assessment on stock, which de- serves passing notice. In the first place the petition was ad- dressed to MT. Bolan personally, and not to the Territorial Board of Equalization, and laid on his table for any one toread; therefore there was no discourtesy in its publica- tion. In the next place the peti- ton was the official utterance of Board whose proceedings are re- quired to be public and should have been mentioned at least in the official newspaper of the county, but for some reason best known to